4 Bible Verses about Asceticism, Types

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are celibates. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men to be the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.